A month of the Hurd: new installation CDs, further Git migration,
porting.

This month Philip Charles created a new installation
CD, the L
series,
for the Hurd, which brings us a big step towards installing the Hurd from the
Hurd (without the need of a Linux-based installer). If you enjoy testing
stuff, please give it a try.

On the same front, Michael Banck uploaded a new version of
crosshurd that makes it again
possible to use this package for creating a GNU/Hurd system image directly
from Debian unstable packages.

Our bunch of porters continued to make further Debian packages usable on
GNU/Hurd: Pino Toscano worked on a lot of packages, and Wesley W. Terpstra
made mlton build -- together with
Samuel Thibault, who first had to enhance GNU
Mach to support allocating more than 1 GiB of RAM
to one user-space process, which mlton needs.

On the go, Samuel also fixed a number of other bugs here and there, for
example together with Eric Blake and Roland McGrath hashed out a difficile
issue in the filesystem servers regarding POSIX conformance and system
stability.

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